Lobelia spicataLam.

pale-spiked lobelia

WFO wfo-0000815661 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Lobelia spicata, photographed by jfox16
fig. a jfox16, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-29 / obs. 201638733
Lobelia spicata, photographed by Samuel A Schmid, PhD, PWS
fig. b Samuel A Schmid, PhD, PWS, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163591919
Lobelia spicata, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. c Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 156786306
Lobelia spicata, photographed by Gordon C. Snelling
fig. d Gordon C. Snelling, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 151159706
Lobelia spicata, photographed by Ian Whyte
fig. e Ian Whyte, CC0 1.0 / obs. 172175042
Lobelia spicata, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. f Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 143837600
Lobelia spicata, photographed by Elias
fig. g Elias, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 144338239
Lobelia spicata, photographed by Elias
fig. h Elias, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 147665355

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Flowering n = 1,485 observations

Peak flowering in Jun, from 1,485 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 24 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Dortmanna leptostachys (A.DC.) Kuntze
  • Dortmanna spicata Kuntze
  • Lobelia bracteata Small
  • Lobelia claytoniana Michx.
  • Lobelia goodenioides Willd.
  • Lobelia hirtella Greene
  • Lobelia leptostachys A.DC.
  • Lobelia leptostachys var. hirtella Farw.
  • Lobelia nivea Raf.
  • Lobelia pallida Muhl.
  • Lobelia pallida var. claytoniana (Michx.) Darby
  • Lobelia paniculata Raf.
  • Lobelia spicata f. albiflora Ralph Hoffm.
  • Lobelia spicata f. campanulata (McVaugh) Bowden
  • Lobelia spicata f. spicata
  • Lobelia spicata var. campanulata McVaugh
  • Lobelia spicata var. hirtella A.Gray
  • Lobelia spicata var. leptostachys Mack. & Bush
  • Lobelia spicata var. originalis McVaugh
  • Lobelia spicata var. parviflora A.Gray
  • Lobelia spicata var. scaposa McVaugh
  • Lobelia spicata var. spicata
  • Petromarula hirtella Nieuwl. & Lunell
  • Rapuntium claytonianum C.Presl

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.